From 12 November last year that the Volunteer Firefighters of Mértola (BVM) are without the ambulance of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM), that is stopped at the brand's dealer workshop in Beja, waiting for the repair order, Despite the various budgets it sent to INEM, which he never answered.
Em virtude de já terem passado 143 dias sem resposta do INEM, The company communicated to the BVM the need to remove the car from the interior of the park, since it is occupying a necessary space to repair other vehicles.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), a Direção dos Voluntários de Mértola, immediately communicated to the INEM-Maintenance that “it only assumed the responsibility of removing the ambulance, if it were operational ”, having informed the company that the vehicle is the property of INEM and “it is responsible for taking over it”.
O LN questionou o Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica sobre as medidas que iria tomar acerca da viatura dos BVM, justifying that “INEM will collect the vehicle and pay any existing responsibilities”, acrescentando que o veículo em causa “tem uma idade significativa, and a volume of specific kilometers, which requires greater rigor in the evaluation and decision of the process ”, concluded.
On 17 of December, was sent to INEM, pela direção da Associação Humanitária dos voluntários mertolenses, um primeiro orçamento de reparação que rondava os 25.000 euros. Sabe o JN que o Instituto contatou a empresa para a “melhoria” do orçamento visando uma menor despesa, What was done, but, Still, no response from INEM.
Last day 27 Feb., o LN revelou a notícia da paragem do veículo, tendo na altura a direção da AHBVM apontado o dedo ao Instituto, acusando de que, “It wasn't our reserves, Our population would spend most of the time without access to relief ”, remembering that the municipality of Mértola is one of the largest in the country and with very dispersed populations, isolated and aged. A instituição foi mais longe e deixou um sério aviso: “The non -resolution in the short term of this very serious problem, that has worn us for years, will lead us to take action, that we wouldn't like to start, But that we are ready to entail, If you have targeted forms ”, Remata.
O INEM volta a referir que decorre neste momento um processo plurianual de aquisição e renovação de cerda de 300 emergency vehicles, lembrando que “foi anisado um acordo de cooperação com a Liga Portuguesa de Bombeiros, that will significantly alter the end -of -the -way financing model of INEM ”, remataram.
The corporation has been waiting since September 2019, the delivery of a new vehicle, Situation that was assumed in a letter signed by Luís Meira, where the then chairman of the Board of Directors, transmitted the information that “in 2020 a new ambulance would be attributed ”, What so far has not realized.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
